SIXTE: a generic X-ray instrument simulation toolkit

Thomas Dauser; Sebastian Falkner; Maximilian Lorenz; Christian Kirsch; Philippe Peille; Edoardo Cucchetti; Christian Schmid; Thorsten Brand; Mirjam Oertel; Randall Smith; Jörn Wilms

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Issue		A&A Volume 630, October 2019


Article Number		A66
Number of page(s)		19
Section		Astronomical instrumentation
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201935978
Published online		24 September 2019

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